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January 9, Dartmouth at Lynn, Mass.; 11-12, Boston College, Boston University, and Northeastern in Bean Pot Tourney...
...Christmas holiday trip to Minnesota and Colorado and the second annual Bean Pot Tournament with Boston College, Boston University, and Northeastern, feature a 22-game varsity schedule announced by Athletic Director Thomas D. Bolles...
...into arsenic trioxide and hydrochloric acid in a chemical reaction that increases its corrosive properties. A good rain storm, Horse Cavers were told, could speed the tank leakage beyond hope of control. Already a heavy fog had carried hydrochloric-acid fumes half a mile away, where they killed a bean crop. Worse still, arsenic compound could seep through the famed Kentucky porous limestone into Hidden River, in the cave beneath the town, and contaminate the area's water supply...
...years of research, he tracked down 164 cases, reports Dr. Bean (now at the University of Iowa) in the current A.M.A. Journal. The cases range over 300 years, from a "woeman or mayd in Suffolk who had a julking and fluctuation in her chest . . . heard by the standers by," to soldiers in modern war. Some of the noises-likened to the grinding of gears, the rustling of leaves, the crunching of newspapers, the cooing of doves-have kept their victims awake for nights on end; others have made it impossible for husbands or wives to sleep in the same room...
Many of the cases are relatively harmless, but some patients need quick treatment to save their lives. The cause, according to Dr. Bean: in almost one third of the cases, a heart valve is functioning faultily; in most of the others, air gets into the heart or nearby tissues where it does not belong and acts as a sound chamber. Treatment may range from reassuring the patient to drawing off the air from the churning heart...